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Riaz Muhammad

@riazmuhammad

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Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java, microservices, and cloud-native systems.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a Senior engineering role where I can design cloud-native microservices, improve developer experience, mentor teams, and deliver measurable reliability and performance gains.

I am a Senior Software Engineer with over 5 years of experience designing scalable microservices and web applications, specializing in Java SE & EE and AWS services. I focus on building reliable, performant APIs and cloud-native systems that reduce operational friction and improve developer experience.

At Jumppace I led backend development, authored RESTful API standards, and automated API key provisioning to reduce onboarding time by 30%. I built a serverless address validation service that cut undeliverable domestic addresses by 93% and improved shipment update accuracy by 30%, while introducing event-driven processing and idempotent webhooks.

I mentor junior engineers and promote Agile practices, with a history of tuning performance (MySQL, Redis), building GraphQL services, containerizing applications, and implementing robust CI/CD pipelines. I seek roles where I can continue to architect resilient systems, improve developer DX, and drive measurable operational improvements.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

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Jumppace

Jan 2024 - Present (1 year 10 months)

Led backend development and established RESTful API standards; automated API key provisioning to cut onboarding time by 30% and built an address validation API that reduced undeliverable addresses by 93%, improving shipment update accuracy by 30%.

Java Spring Boot AWS Lambda Kubernetes RESTful APIs API Design Event Driven Architecture N8n

Software Engineer

BigCommerce

Jan 2022 - Dec 2023 (1 year 11 months)

Extended headless and multi-store capabilities and built GraphQL cart/checkout services that reduced client API calls by 30% and improved API stability and latency by 30%.

GraphQL REST APIs Docker MySQL Redis CI CD Test Automation

Backend Developer

i2c

Jun 2020 - Dec 2021 (1 year 6 months)

Refactored a monolithic REST API into NestJS microservices, launched a TDD consumer finance app, and integrated Visa Installments to support ~500k cardholders while ensuring PCI DSS compliance.

NestJS Microservices TDD MySQL Caching PCI DSS Docker

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

FAST-NUCES

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2017 - 2021

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with coursework and projects focused on software engineering, microservices, and cloud-native development.